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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

England is a great country, because once we name a village, that name becomes a sacred, immovable thing (however horrifying the image it conjures may be).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I'm about 6-8 weeks away from reading the word 'Burnham' and not still assuming they mean Bo Burnham and being momentarily confused about why Bo Burnham is committing to abolishing the triple lock.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instinctively like “weird use of the word woman in this headline…” only to discover that the chess community believes that ‘grandmaster’ is a gendered title, and anyone female (regardless of age, apparently) is a ‘woman grandmaster’.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting her hooked early on @jonnelledge.bsky.social books (you can’t hear it but instead of nursery rhymes, we’re playing old episodes of Skylines).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The devastating impacts of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the closure of the strait of Hormuz etc continue. The Harry Potter play producers feel that, after a decade, they can no longer charge tourists £175 twice 😢

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So delighted for Gordon Brown winning MrBeast’s “who can stay in a paddling pool filled with orbeez and bat guano for 24 hours” contest. A much deserved second act 👏

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "Today's News" tab on X vs the BBC News homepage. But people on X will tell you (over and over and over and over) that the BBC is no longer a serious news organisation.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"One of the worst things in the world is being spat on," the Millwall v West Ham commentator just said. Let it never be said that the football community is out of touch.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LinkedIn notifies you about midlife crises now. Cool new feature!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally, after a decade in journalism, a drop intro to be proud of.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No disrespect to this bloke’s family who are obviously grieving, but what is the point of this BBC push notification? Like, what is the suggestion here? That the police should not investigate crimes?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a press release about six very famous people, and one woman who said “faithful, faithful, not sure, traitor, traitor, faithful, traitor, faithful, faithful, faithful, that's it!" on The Traitors.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is absurd to have a 'finale' to 7 Up. We should have followed them to the grave, and beyond.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was the line-up for this festival always so mental? Mariana Mazzucato, Bryan Johnson, Louis Theroux, Dasha Nekrasova, Kwasi Kwarteng, the guy from Rizzle Kicks. This is rage bait booking.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My most egregiously Westminster-pilled brainworm is thinking to myself “truly a GOVErnment of all the talents - welcome Michael” any time I see Michael Gove doing anything. No longer even sure if that’s the real wording of the tweet, or if the tweet ever even happened.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It reminds me of how the advertising industry had a period of trying to commission “viral videos”. Like, virality was a consequence of excellence (or notoriety), not something you could design.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Finally! A politician brave enough to pledge growth 👏

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I fear this Reform undercover sting may not actually be a runner. The Times and Telegraph are barely touching it (for obvious reasons), and the BBC seems pretty equivocal. The Guardian and Independent are leading on it, but that's probably a badge of honour to people on the right.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hopefully they'll be able to repurpose the words for the new slogan: lead to conviction.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

tfw when the really lovely bloke you just met, who always asks how you're feeling, calls you "mate" without flinching, and even comes out for pints on "a school night" turns out to be an undercover journalist

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think I'd take the word 'conviction' out of the company tagline.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Person who's more invested in just saying stuff than in any particular political ideology: a year undercover in Reform UK? You'd get less for murder – in Andy Burnham's broken Britain!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm so psyched for this new rom-com from the great Paul Mayhew-Archer, co-writer of Vicar of Dibley and (more importantly by far!) co-host of our podcast, Movers & Shakers. It's a story about living with Parkinson's – which also happens to be the strapline of our show!

youtube.com

Onwards and Sideways (2026) Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney

YouTube video by Icon Film Distribution

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Steven Bartlett's continued presence on Dragon's Den is, for me, indicative of the BBC's current structural failing: a misguided attempt to solicit mythical Gen Z audiences, at the expense of proper, rigorous journalism.

inews.co.uk

The BBC should have sacked Steven Bartlett when it had the chance

The podcaster's longstanding role on Dragons' Den shows how morally bankrupt modern media has become

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The BBC has been live-streaming the ascension of Hakon VIII for over an hour now (it is mainly holding shots of this building). What percentage of Brits even know that Norway has a king? But sure, cancel Newsnight.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

David Mitchell not returning to defend his title on Last One Laughing, a show that has become famous as the easiest payday in British TV history.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was going to get a haircut here, but then I changed my mind.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jake Humphrey is a podcaster that people love to hate. He’s turned that into one of Britain’s most lucrative new media businesses. Is there such thing as a ‘Jake Humphrey fan’? And does it matter?

inews.co.uk

How Jake Humphrey turned his Accidental Partridge routine into millions

The TV presenter and podcaster has leaned into his lifestyle guru persona, unlocking a formula that is popular and lucrative

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two actors who were cast as Gilderoy Lockhart but had to drop out due to “scheduling conflicts” a few weeks before filming, 25 years apart.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Has anyone ever successfully executed a house swap (like, trading your house with someone in another country for, say, a month)? Or is this something that can only work in a Nancy Meyers film?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing prepared me for how adorable a tiny baby looks whilst straining to poo 😍

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m now seeing a bunch of accounts who think that that the lesson learned from the Jason Arday tragedy is to try and whip up a dogpile on a bunch of journalists. Some of these are just young news reporters, whose commissioning will have been driven by the public frenzy.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

wtf is this? (From an Instagram account with almost 70,000 followers). Can’t people be normal for just one precious minute?!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Does anyone have any strong opinions on Jake Humphrey that they'd like to share with me on a Sunday morning?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jesus, that New Statesman cover is going to be on newsstands for a full week…

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wonder how soon Laurence Fox will start to blame his abject failure in right-wing demagoguery on some sort of oblique diversity agenda amongst ethnonationalists. Doesn't leave much space to pivot into, I'll concede, but those who can't do... pass the buck to some sort of internal conspiracy.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Please post your shittest attempt to photograph the eclipse

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looks like I chose the wrong week to throw away an unopened box with 5,000 pairs of solar eclipses glasses. Ah well…

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m not a mathematician but surely the 2000 people who cross the channel every day on the Spirit of France are more record breaking than this?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I hope some newspaper/magazine is commissioning the Wisecrack comedian to review Amanda Knox's Edinburgh show.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The co-comms on West Ham v Portsmouth has twice used “sense and sensibility” to mean common sense. Marianne Dashwood rolling her eyes.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Jason Arday learning the same lesson as the Salt Path lady before him: that the British public have an insatiable appetite for humiliating minor celebrities they'd barely heard of a few days ago, and the media are massively incentivised to drip-feed revelations like a hamster's water bottle.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Am I missing something with this story? What happened to Meredith Kercher was terrible, but what happened to Amanda Knox was also really bad. Her entire life continues to be shaped by decades-old tabloid gossip, and even if I find her later career a bit weird, surely it's her story to tell?

scotsman.com

Over 6,000 people sign petition to axe Amanda Knox Edinburgh Fringe show

Bosses have defended the staging of Knox’s show ‘Cartwheel’, saying a family’s pain “cannot be a lens with how we consider work at the Fringe”.

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